Fat Cakes

Last week when Wayne went shopping, he came home with Twinkies. (For all of those who don't know, Wayne does all of the grocery shopping! I must be the luckiest person ever!)

We have never had Twinkies in the house as I think they are very gross and horrible for you as well.

J. was home last Friday due to a Dr.'s appt. When we were unloading the groceries, I explained to him that Twinkies aren't good for you. I may have said that too many might make you fat (I don't remember.)

Anyway, later the entire family was together and J. was telling his sisters about the Fat Cakes!

They had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, but I told them that he must mean Twinkies and why J. must have started to call them that.

Now we often call Twinkies "Fat Cakes".

Really?...Ummmm.......gross.

I need to preface my remarks by saying that I was exhausted for a bunch of the day yesterday. When I am tired, I am less coherent.

On Sunday S. was showing me her loose tooth. I didn't think it was very loose and I thought it would take at least 2 weeks to come out.

Yesterday morning S. mentioned that her mouth hurt where her loose tooth was. I told her that she could have tylenol if she wanted. In the meantime, we dropped K. off at the bus stop and came home. Within 5-10 minutes, S. told me she didn't need tylenol.

When I finally understood what she was saying (I told you I was tired and less coherent!), I asked "Why?" to which she replied, "Because my tooth fell out!" Boy was I surprised!!

I dutifully took the tooth and put it in a ziploc bag and put it on the kitchen shelf.

As we were running behind yesterday, I was dashing around trying to get things done. Everything was finally accomplished and off they went to school.

After they were on the bus and I was home, I did a bit of cleaning. I knew I needed to put her tooth in a safe place so she could show Wayne and then put it under her pillow last night. Well...I couldn't find it! I looked on the counters, on the island, in the living room, and I even thought that in my stupor I may have thrown it away, so I looked in the garbage (not too far down though!). Nope, not there either.

Hmmmm...I didn't know where else to look so I temporarily gave up.

Fast forward to the S. coming home. - S. told me that I had put her sandwich in the ziploc with her tooth!

I felt horrible and with a cringe asked, "Did you eat the sandwich?" (Now, I totally would not have blamed her if she didn't and I know many people who wouldn't have.) She said that she ate most of it.

While I felt happy that she had not gone hungry, I felt bad that I had put her sandwich in with her tooth.

Thankfully today I am feeling much more rested. :)

Confusing Morning - Winter or Spring?

Well, this morning Wayne told me that I would have to clean off my vehicle because it snowed last night.

I went out to clean off the vehicle and start it. While doing so, I heard spring birds singing. It felt discordant to be cleaning the snow off the van and listening to birds singing.

If I had a choice, I would pick Spring.

Dining at Chuck-E-Cheese

During winter break, we had a small get together at Chuck-E-Cheese. We had lots of fun. We set up a buddy system. K. and Jocelyn hung out together (and they had others along too sometimes).

S. was fantastic and was J.'s buddy. They stayed together and had a great time. I am so glad that my kids get a long!


Here J. is in the tube that you have to climb up to get into.

Snowman/Snowwoman?

On the 19th, S. and J. went outside to make a snowman. They did a great job.



Later when discussing the snowperson, they had a conversation that went something like this:

S. - Mom, do you know what the snowman's name is?

Mom - No. What did you name it?

S. - Susan. It's a girl.

J. No, it's not. It's a boy.

So...whether it's a boy or a girl, I'm just happy that they had fun (and didn't make it obvious which gender they wanted it!).

Snow is Still Here

About a week or so ago, I was talking with my Mom, who lives on the other side of the state. I asked if it snowed there. She said that it had, but that the grass was peeking through the snow. I was astounded as we still have A TON of snow here. I took pictures and had to put them up, lest anyone think that we are snow-free.

The first picture is standing on the other side of the road so that you can see the huge mound of snow at the edge of the driveway.

When it melts, it has nowhere to go and so it looks like this:

This was taken 2 weeks ago looking out from our driveway. Currently it is frozen with a layer of snow on top.

Last month I went on a field trip with J. to a science/technology museum. Here J. is striking the bell.

J. in a canoe.



After the kids got to see lots of fun things, they did a demonstration that included animals. Here J. is touching a turtle.



J. touching a gecko.


His favorite was the snake. Unfortunately, you would never get that from looking at the pic., so I didn't include it.


This is an animal that was seen in a habitat, not during the presentation.

We had lots of fun and I absolutely LOVE going on field trips with my kids.